I still remember last year, Doubao brought a little AI shock to major mobile phone manufacturers. Together with Nubia, we made a Doubao mobile assistant.
Buying tickets, ordering takeout, and checking flights have become basic tasks.
But at that time, Beanbao was just a technology preview demo in the testing stage.
And today, 9 months later, the consumer version of Doubao Mobile Assistant is finally here.
As a well-known software and hardware tasting master, you will naturally not miss it.
In order to find out what Doubao has done in the past six months, I directly came from Tony’s next door. This phone was equipped with Doubao mobile assistant and equipped withQualcomm Snapdragon 8 Extreme EditionI came to experience Nubia NaviX Ultra and help my friends have a taste of it.
But after the experience is completed, the negative reviewers can only say that they have mixed feelings.
This new version of Doubao Mobile Assistant,It has become both stronger and weaker.
Let’s talk about getting stronger first. Compared with the previous generation, the appearance of their entire mobile phones this year has become significantly lighter.
In order to allow everyone to use the bean bag faster, a complete AI button is directly inserted on the side of it. Different AI functions can be set separately by clicking or double-clicking.
Of course, in addition to the adjustments and changes in the hardware, this time the Doubao mobile assistant is actually quite capable of doing work.
In addition to some well-known reasons, Doubao Mobile Assistant cannot be used in some software.
Among the software that can be used, the work efficiency is quite high.
For example, in the shopping malls of Douyin and JD.com, it can help me automatically complete complex mental activities such as comparing product prices and adding shopping carts.
Don’t call me until you have to pay.
In Douyin, it can also help me like and comment on various videos. It can even automatically refresh videos according to my requirements and collect selected content in batches.
For tasks that need to be done in different apps, Doubao Mobile Assistant can also do a good job.
For example, if I want to arrange a business trip, I need to confirm the itinerary on Feishu, book air tickets and hotels on Ctrip, and confirm on Baidu Maps how to get from the airport to the hotel, how to commute from the hotel to the venue, and how long each journey will take.
Although this job is not difficult, it still takes a lot of time to do it by yourself, so this time I decided to let Doubao give it a try.
The operation is also very simple. I only need to write a planning document in Feishu first, record the date of the business trip, the city to be visited and several destinations, and then tell the Doubao mobile assistant to help me plan the business trip according to the schedule in the Feishu document and the chat history with colleagues.
After receiving the task, Doubao Mobile Assistant will first open Feishu, find my itinerary, and confirm the departure date and all destinations.
Then, it will break the entire trip into a specific timeline based on the location and time requirements of these locations, and then enter Ctrip to screen suitable air tickets and hotels based on departure time, landing time, price and other conditions.
When encountering uncertainties, such as whether to take the subway or take a taxi from the airport to the hotel, or whether to book a cheaper hotel or a hotel that is closer.
Like a human assistant, it would stop to ask for my opinion and then proceed after receiving my response.
Finally, it will open the map applet, check the distance between the airport, hotel and the venue, the commuting method, confirm the commuting time required for each section of the road, and reorganize and summarize this information to me.
More importantly, all these tasks can be executed in the background without affecting our normal use of mobile phones at all.
Only when it encounters information that it cannot confirm, or when it encounters sensitive operations such as payment and login, will it stop and leave it to us for final confirmation.
Of course, in addition to doing work, the memory function of Doubao Mobile Assistant is also quite surprising. When we operate the mobile phone, it will gradually learn our preferences.
For example, if I tell it that I prefer to live close to the venue when traveling on business, and that I don’t like flights that are too early when booking air tickets, this information will be retained as memory. After a few more visits, it will give priority to satisfying these preferences when performing similar tasks.
You can also swipe up with three fingers to actively ask Doubao to remember some key information, such as a meeting in a few days, or the flavor of milk tea you like to drink.
Of course, some missionaries who have more exposure to AI may say that these functions were indeed amazing last year, but they are nothing new now.
After all, lobster has become popular this year, and many people should have come into contact with these agent tools that can work.
But after using Doubao Mobile Assistant for a period of time, I found that there is something good about Doubao. After all, all kinds of lobsters can basically only get information on the Internet, and the information in the mobile app can only be ignored.
As long as an App can be operated normally, it can try to understand the interface, find out how to complete tasks on its own, and when it encounters problems, it will find ways to try to modify it. It is not afraid of making mistakes, but afraid of not doing it.
However, the current Doubao mobile assistant is not perfect. After trying it for a period of time, the negative reviewer still found some very regrettable things:
Nowadays, there are too few mobile apps that can control it.
Alipay, WeChat, Meituan, Didi, Xiaohongshu, JD.com are all commonly used apps in our lives, but it can’t use any of them.
When AI phones first became popular a few years ago, everyone was still joking that these AI phones could only be used to promote takeaways.
But now the latest Doubao mobile phone,Even ordering takeout has become a luxury., due to various restrictions from manufacturers, we have tested that none of the three brothers, Meituan Flash Sale and JD.com, can be called by AI.
After playing with it so far, the apps that Doubao phones can use relatively stably are mainly Byte and ZTE’s own apps, as well as some third-party apps like Ctrip and Cao Cao Travel.
What a pity, what a pity.
Finally, I would like to talk about the product form of AI mobile phone.
Ever since GPT first became popular, many people have been preparing to build a brand new “AI terminal” to revolutionize mobile phones.
But most of them are either not AI enough, or their problem-solving capabilities are not enough to be called a complete product.
The experience of using it is not even as good as opening the bean bag directly on the mobile phone.
As for mobile phone manufacturers, the speed of adapting to AI has never been fast. Apple’s pie has been waiting for almost two years and is finally about to be realized. The AI functions of other mobile phone manufacturers are also constantly being improved, tested and improved.
In such an environment, I am quite happy to see a catfish like Doubao Mobile Assistant jumping out to disrupt the situation.
Although the result of the disruption is that it has temporarily hit the invisible wall of App manufacturers, we can also feel that under the disruption like Doubao, the official AI functions of various mobile phone manufacturers are also constantly speeding up.
This year, Apple still made a big mention of AI in its press conference. AI tools from mobile phone manufacturers such as Huawei, Xiaomi, and OPPO are also intensively deployed or in internal testing.
If we keep rolling up at this rate, maybe this invisible wall will be knocked open one day.
撰文: Get up early & Jiji
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